Hi -
Depending on how much time you want to invest in to this, you can still
fix it.
If you boot off of a RedHat 9 disk, you can enter Rescue mode. From
there you will be able to find all partitions, devices, and everything
else that you would need to rebuild that fstab file.
I don't think RH9 used LVM yet by default, so you should be in the clear
there. Some utilities that you'll want to use after entering Rescue
mode would be 'fdisk -l /dev/whatever' to probe for partition
information. You'll also find the command 'e2label' helpful if you use
ext2 or ext3 volume labels.
Use 'man fstab' for what the fields in fstab provide information on.
Again, depending on how much time you wish to put in to this, this is an
easily solvable problem.
Thanks
-dant